Violence seemed to reign supreme this weekend. There were several fights as the European season fully kicked off on Friday, and Twitter had a field day with Manchester United.
Crystal Palace defender Joachim Andersen is dealing with one of the ugliest sides of the beautiful game: social media.
The Danish defender said he has received hundreds of death threats after Palace’s 1-1 draw with Liverpool on Monday. The Andersen death threats came after Liverpool’s star signing Darwin Nuñez was red carded for headbutting him.
Darwin Núñez has been sent off!
English football is known for oddly named teams: Nottingham Forest, Accrington Stanley, Leyton Orient. Yet even with these curious labels, there is one commonality between these clubs — they are named after neighborhoods or towns.
In fact, only one EFL side is not named after a place — League One side Port Vale, whose title represents the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal.
But one club seems to reject all logic with its name: Crystal Palace. London has a region known as Crystal Palace, but the title is only as old as the football club itself.
With 15 minutes to go in Almería, it looked like Real Madrid was going to stumble to an opening draw in LaLiga play Sunday, à la Barcelona against Rayo Vallecano yesterday.
Dos partidos, 10 goles y un nivel que a uno lo hace pensar que el PSG tiene otro título de la Ligue 1 en el bolsillo. Sin embargo, no todo es paz en el paraíso. Bajo la superficie parece ir desatándose una guerra de egos entre dos de sus más grandes figuras: Neymar y Kylian Mbappé.
The first "big six" meeting of the Premier League season couldn't have been scripted any better Sunday afternoon with Chelsea and Tottenham playing to a riotous 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge in a match that featured two bangers, a 90+6' equalizer, a bench-clearing scuffle and red cards for both managers.
Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte squared off twice, including after full-time when Tuchel took Conte's hand in a vice-like grip and started pecking away at the Italian's hair transplant with the bill of his hat.
No hizo un triplete como Steve Bergwijn ni maravilló a punta de regates como lo hizo Antony, pero Edson Álvarez tuvo una fantástica actuación en la goleada 6-1 del Ajax sobre el Groningen, en la segunda fecha de la Eredivisie. Machín incluso se anotó con una asistencia y tras su performance muchos se preguntaron por qué su ex técnico, Erik ten Hag, no se lo lleva a Inglaterra para ser el mariscal de un Manchester United que da pena en la Premier League.
An electric crowd of 30,000 at sunbathed City Ground roared its charmed Nottingham Forest side to a 1-0 win over West Ham on Sunday afternoon in the first Premier League match at the stadium in 23 years.
The buzz around Forest's first season back in the English top flight since 1998-99 has centered on the club's summer expenditure of $113 million, and after a disjointed opening day defeat away to Newcastle, Steve Cooper's new additions were the heroes in front of their home supporters today.
After all the Barcelona transfer and registration drama this summer it culminated in a 0-0 draw with Rayo Vallecano at the Spotify Camp Nou on Saturday. Barcelona went all out this summer signing stars like Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha and more just to be shutout at home.
Barça manager Xavi must’ve had a nightmare of a week preparing for Saturday’s home opener. He didn’t even know if Lewandowski, Raphinha, Andreas Christensen, Franck Kessié, Sergi Roberto or Ousmane Dembélé would be available for the game until Friday night.
In May a BBC headline accidentally ran on live television that stated, “Manchester United are rubbish.” Three months later that headline couldn’t be any truer as Brentford demolished the Red Devils 4-0 Saturday at Gtech Community Stadium.